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"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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It's not a good long term market because retirees will be gone in 20-30 years and millennials+ will never be able to retire.
Most games are not lasting longer than 5 years anyway, then the userbase is getting so small that the revenue isn't attractive anymore.